Kurchatov (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	38.3° N, 142.1° E
Diameter	106 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	218° at sunrise
Eponym	Igor V. Kurchatov

Kurchatov is a lunar impact crater that is located on the Moon's far side. It is just to the southwest of the Wiener crater, and further to the southeast of Bridgman crater. A couple of crater diameters to the south of Kurchatov is the northern edge of the Mare Moscoviense.

This is a worn and eroded crater formation, with a pair of small craters laying across the northern rim, and a generally worn and pitted rim and inner wall. A small crater lies along the northern inner wall and a bowl-shaped crater at the northwest edge of the interior floor. There is a small, elongated central ridge near the mid-point, and the interior floor is pitted with tiny craterlets.

Beginning to the south of Kurchatov and running toward the west-northwest is a crater chain designated Catena Kurchatov. The chain ends to the southeast of Becquerel crater.

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By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Kurchatov crater.